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another attempt to widen access

Posted by , on 3 February 2016

Sorry for all the messing about, but there are now a number of ways of accessing  my latest polemic which is called The last 50 years: mismeasurement and mismanagement are ...

Using the mouse to model human disease: increasing validity and reproducibility

Posted by , on 3 February 2016

This editorial by Monica J. Justice and Paraminder Dhillon was first published in Disease Models & Mechanisms.   ABSTRACT Experiments that use the mouse as a model for disease have recently ...

21st Century Journal Clubs

Posted by , on 2 February 2016

Does anyone have 21st century ideas on how to run a diverse (not just developmental biology) departmental journal club?

Question of the month- patenting public research

Posted by , on 29 January 2016

Last week the Montreal Neurological Institute announced that it will become the first fully Open Science academic institute. In addition to  making their results and data available for free upon publication, ...

Peter Lawrence

Posted by , on 26 January 2016

What ho nodites, I am putting here a link to my latest polemic on the issues discussed in the interview and some others. Of course being carefully written it is ...

Drawing Embryos, Seeing Development

Posted by , on 25 January 2016

  Today, when we want to capture an image given by the microscope we can either snap a photograph of it or obtain a computer-generated image. But prior to when ...

Mole- So now you have your own lab! Part VIII- Money Matters

Posted by , on 11 January 2016

This cartoon was first published in the Journal of Cell Science. Read other articles and cartoons of Mole & Friends here.   Part I- ‘The imposter’ Part II- ‘The teaching monster’ Part ...

Future developments: your thoughts and our plans

Posted by , on 5 January 2016

This editorial by Olivier Pourquié and Katherine Brown first appeared in Development.   As a journal with its community very much at its heart, we here at Development believe it ...

Mole- So now you have your own lab! Part VII- Beaten & Bruised

Posted by , on 29 December 2015

This cartoon was first published in the Journal of Cell Science. Read other articles and cartoons of Mole & Friends here.   Part I- ‘The imposter’ Part II- ‘The teaching monster’ Part ...

For the first time!

Posted by , on 14 December 2015

This Sticky Wicket article first featured in Journal of Cell Science. Read other articles and cartoons of Mole & Friends here. Oh it’s a hot one. Steamy hot summer day. So ...

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